Not so much, but I’m getting old…so. I did prefer the days of watching a team progress. Then again, we sucked at that for a long time. Maybe this model will be better for us overall?
I hate the whole nature of it…But that’s just as me as a fan.
If you sign the guys you hope for, they end up spending a year here and then they’re gone
Some of them.
Could he not cut it here or was it about more money there? Why the need for the change?
Early explanation it was both about playing time and money…One poster close to it on another board said he will reveal a little more after he’s officially out, so who knows… But that’s the gist of it.
Sooner or later they will simply have a draft followed by contracts for college. Might as well right? It’s essentially Alt-Pro
Yeah, most loyal college football fans hate portal, at least having two of them and the NIL. Times have changed and the NCAA gave in to the peer pressure and decided to legalize what’s been done for decades. I hate it. They really need to regulate the portal and do away with at least one of them and once a kid transfers once then if he chooses to transfer again he has to sit out a year. It’s just college FA is all that it is. No loyalty, it’s all about ME and getting “the bag”. It’s really a reflection of our society. Since Covid hit and the government paid folks to stay home it’s just been insane on business, especially the mom and pop stores. High turnover in most jobs, help wanted signs everywhere, it’s sad.
Anyhow, we really need to focus on some more DB help.
Could they have in the NIL a contract that says you can not transfer or somerhing like that?
Do you work for your company for free? If someone offered you a 50% raise would you tell them no?
There is nothing more American than quitting to take more money.
I also don’t think covid caused this. In 1994, C.R.E.A.M. by Wu Tang Clan came out. Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
If you want loyalty, put it in a contract and call them an employee. Seems to work okay for the pro leagues.
Yippie! Makes it all OK, then. 
It is annoying. It is an adjustment.
Is it awful? Maybe, but maybe not.
All I know is Miami has been playing a losing hand for 20 years. Anything that shakes the system to its core and knocks down the Alabama’s of the world is a positive change in my book.
Does that mean Miami can win out of this? That remains to be seen. But I feel like it’s upending the old school, and Miami was no longer doing well there. Now maybe there’s a chance for change.
It’s just absurd to blame college players thinking “it’s all about ME and getting the bag” because of COVID lol. The government gave out a max of $3,200 per person (if you didn’t make that much money). Lol at thinking anyone can stay home on that or now has a “me” attitude because of 32 benjamins.
The reality is the NCAA and colleges loved being able to not pay the labor and had no plan for what paying college players should look like so we get this craziness. The colleges prefer this to employees but they will be employees soon enough. College athletics will go back to 100 years ago where it’s not revenue generating which is just fine. Anything generating billions of revenues a year should be paying the labor a substantial share of the revenues.
And in other news Jonathan Denis and Chris Washington are hitting the portal.
I barely remember the names of some of these guys. They are signed as ballyhooed prospects. Get buried on the depth chart first couple of years. Then transfer and you’re like who the hell is he?
Time to start memorizing player names in late August.
Man, hate to be rude…but I don’t remember either.
Thomas Gore, adios.
Barrow to UM was very important after the JHH loss imo.
We will agree to disagree.
College football did just fine before the Pay to Play, and College FA hit the fan. Yes, we all know kids, some of them, were getting paid under the table…Hello, Uncle Luke? However, the Pay to Play and the College FA has ruined college football as we once knew it. Saban saw this and retired. It’s just how the game is going to be played.
Of course I don’t work for free but these kids are getting a FREE education. I don’t recall getting a FREE education.
Covid had a lot to do with the decline in work ethic around the country. It’s not THE cause, but it certainly helped it along the way.
You lost me after WU TANG…
College football is fine. It needs to fix some things but overall the product on the field and where it sits right now are fine. They are going to make these players employees at some point. They are going to have caps on how much money these kids can make. The system is going to change. I have spoken to enough college coaches to know that at the current rate it is not sustainable. MOST seem to know this.
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C’mon man ! The amount of time they have to devote to football practice is overwhelming for most of them . Don’t fall for the old canard of …“Well most of 'em aren’t to bright that’s why they set them up with courses of basket-weaving and swahili”
Taking on a full academic course-load AND time consuming football practice puts these kids under the same pressure as a full time job. Free is Free. This…aint that.
Everyone was getting fat and PAID. Everyone but the kids walking away with permanent injuries.
I don’t have a problem with them getting paid at all. Just disassociate what they are doing with the NCAA and make it minor league. Most of them aren’t really student athletes. Even when I was in school 20 years ago many of the athletes from the basketball team never came to class and somehow stayed at the University. The student athlete term is really a joke for a lot of these kids.
I had an acquaintance who was a doctoral candidate at Michigan Ann Arbor. He tutored some of the football players, one of whom went on to play in the NFL for about 10 years. He told me that player could barely read and was in no way qualified to be a college student at a supposedly elite university. I believe this player did not graduate but he did his 4 or 5 years in Ann Arbor.
While there are exceptions, (Berrios for one) most student athletes in the major sports are much more athlete than student. The NFL and NBA should have farm teams like MLB does, sign prospects to contracts, pay them, etc. The ones that really want to go to college and are legit students can play NCAA. The level of play will drop if most of the kids with pro potential are drafted into professional minor leagues but at least the system won’t be a sham. College baseball has managed to survive even with many of the best players being drafted out of high school and playing professionally.
I’m not a fan of the current “shamateurish” in college football and basketball.
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I agree that the time has come for a NFL sponsored football minor league system. Or at least a separate/independent league that has the purpose of grooming players and from whom players get drafted.
But it will never happen because billions of dollars are invested in the existing system and there’s decades (if not a century) of fandom built up that won’t go for it. Let’s see Alabama football go away and get replaced by a minor league team (e.g., the Alabama Tides). Hah. I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Fans won’t have it, too much ego and self-image tied up in being a fan within the existing system.
Well said, and I’d buy that for a dollar. For sure.